Food-chopping machine.



No. 639,307; Patented Dec. I9, |899. El STEINHORST & J. SEISLMEIR.

FOOD CHOPPING MACHINE.

(Application led Apr. 191899.) (No Model.)

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EMIL STEINHORST AND JOSEPH SEISLMEIR, OF UTIOA, NEW` YORK, ASSIGN- ORSTO SAID SEISLMEIR AND ALBERTINE STEINHORST, OF SAME PLACE.

FOODCHOPP|NG MACHINE. i

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 639,307, dated December19, 1899. Application iled April 19, 1899. Serial No. 713,627. (Nomodel.)

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that we, EMIL SrEINHoRsT and JOSEPH SEIsLMEIR, citizens ofthe United States of America, and residents of Utica, Oneida county,NewYork, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Food-Chopping Machines, of which the following is a specication.

Our, invention relates to a food-chopping machine; and it consists inthe mechanism hereinafter more fully pointed out and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 represents a vertical central section of ourmachine. Fig. 2 represents a bottom View of the cutters illustrated inFig. 3. Fig. 3 represents a side view of the cutters. Fig. 4t representsthe cover. Fig. 5 represents the chopping-block. Fig. 6 represents asectional cover.

Having described our invention by reference to the figures, we will nowproceed to describe it more in detail.

In the drawings similar letters and numerals referto correspondin gparts in the several views.

W'e provide a sheet-metal tubular body 1 of the same diameter from endto end. At the bottom 2 We turn the metal inward for preventing thechopping-block from dropping through the tube. In the tube we insertchopping-block 3 3, having a rabbeted surface 4 at the bottom foraccommodating the inward projections 2 on the bottom of the tube. Thechopping-block is made of suitably-prepared wood provided with anangular depressed or concave surface 5. (lVell illustrated in Figs. 1and 5.) This chopping-block is inserted in tube 1 at the top and isallowed to drop down into the position shown in Fig. 1, where its bottomis permitted to rest upon the solid surface, the bottom being movedeither by pressing the block up or inverting the tube and allowing it tofall downward. By the use ot' this movable chopping-block the contentsof the tube can be crowded out of the tube by partially inverting thesame and crowding the movable bottom toward the top, and it may also beremoved for the purpose of cleaning.

We provide a cover 6, with flange 7, which fits inside of the top of thetubular body, the top having a central opening 8,through which openinghandle 9 is permitted to pass, so that when the chopping operations aregoingforward central .opening 8 acts as a guide and a cover combined.For the purpose of cutting the substances which are put into the tubularbody'we provide a pair of cutters a b, having curved cutting edges 10,which correspond in their curvature to the angle or convexity of thedepression in the cutting-block and made to lit thereto. Each blade ctand b we provide with two cutting edges 10 10 and are placed side byside, as indicated at 11 11, Fig. 2, in slot 11 in the bottom of handle9 and are held in this position at 12, Fig. 3, where they are heldfirmly in the handle, so that when the cutter is operated up and. downby the hand having hold of the knob 13 on the upper end of the handle orstem 9 a vigorous blow may be applied to the substance on which thecurved cutting edges operate,

and by this means the material operated on is constantly worked into thecenter of the depression in the chopping-block, and at each stroke aseries of cutting edges come in contact with the mass and readily cut itto the required degree of fineness, when the cover is removed and thecontents of the tube or body is expelled by crowding the bottom towardthe top.

In Fig. 6 we have illustrated a divisible top formed in two sections,with the central opening 8 on the line of the two sections and heldtogether by springs, so that the cover may be detached from the handlewhen it is found desirable to do so. l

What we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, irsl. Thehand-chopper, substantially as described, consisting essentially of thecylindrical casing of the same internal diameter throughout with openends, the lower end provided with an inwardly-projecting support, thecylindrical imperforate choppingblock longitudinally movable in saidcasin,

from said'lower-end support to the upper open end of the casing, wherebythe block can be moved throughout the length of the casing and outtherefrom through its open IOO top to sweep the chopped material fromthe casing, said block normally resting on said inwardly-projectingsupport, the shank having a top handle and the chopping-knives at itsinner end, said chopping-block formed with a top concavity, and theknives conforming to the concavity, substantially as set forth.

2. In combination, the cylindrical casing open at the ends with theinturned flange at the lower end,` the chopping-block movably located inthe casing against said flange and movable longitudinally through thecasing and out at the opposite end, said block being imperforate withthe central top depression unobstructed at the central portion, thehandoperated chopping knife comprising the shank or handle and theradiating knives sewhich said shank reciprocates, and the spring'forming the connection between the sections of said cover, substantiallyas described.

EMIL STEINHORST. JOSEPH SEISLMEIR.

Witnesses:

PHEBE A. TANNER, JOHN E. HAsTINGs.

